# Conflict Report

Eight high-priority conflict classes are encoded in `data/conflicts.json`.

1. **Central regularity:** older flat-centre claims are superseded by divergent `R` and `K`.
2. **Horizon/centre conflation:** a finite horizon does not establish a regular centre.
3. **Blend implementation:** the template’s cubic zero-slope smoothstep is replaced by a quintic endpoint-derivative match.
4. **Blend implementation drift:** `segmented-calculation-suite/segcalc/methods/xi.py` uses a quintic zero-slope smoothstep to mix two non-flat branch functions. That is not the endpoint-derivative-matched P0 construction and does not, by itself, make the global field C².
5. **Strong-field exponent:** reversed/global saturation variants are legacy or local-only, not the operational global branch.
6. **Test totals:** counts from functions, parametrisations, logs and audits are reported separately.
7. **Strong-field observable numbers:** values require explicit metric, branch and derivation provenance.
8. **Empirical language:** fit, compatibility, prediction and confirmation are distinct.

The P0 correction increases scientific credibility by narrowing the claim to what the current mathematics supports.